Adding a Dual Port NIC into a Windows 7 machine

Virdi · 11 Nov 2015 at 11:23

Hi all.

So if I was to add a dual Port NIC into my Windows 7 machine ...once the drivers are installed ...How would I setup Link Aggregation etc..?

Does Windows 7 have this built in? or will I need the software from NIC vendor?

Thanks

Virdi · 11 Nov 2015 at 12:02

Hi,

I was looking at a 'HP NC360T' which has Intel Chipset.

Windows 7 is supported and I have Netgear Smart Switch which supports LACP.

Thanks

Virdi · 11 Nov 2015 at 12:15

Thanks! -I will try this.

I am trying to build a super fast network so that I can tranfer multiple large size files to and from my NAS.

Virdi · 11 Nov 2015 at 12:33

I have two NAS boxes both have Dual LAN Ports for LACP.

PC has WD Black drives and NAS has WD REDs in RAID 0.

Virdi · 11 Nov 2015 at 14:03

bledd. said:
^^This.

As someone who has setup LACP at home, besides being able to backup multiple machines at the same time, there's very little advantage, you'll run into the limits of the hard drive speed, it's very unlikely the NAS can handle 2x 112MB/s writes to the hard drives.

If you have an SSD array in the NAS, then you might well see a benefit, or if you have 8+ hard drives in the NAS.

But at that level, you should be looking at 10Gbps adapters / switches, which at the moment is £££

ok Thanks

Would I better better off trying FREENAS on a HP Micro Server? Would that give me more performance?

Thanks